[Debian-ppc64-devel] How to start installation on an IBM i5 (power5).

Sven Luther sven.luther@wanadoo.fr
Fri, 20 May 2005 01:23:25 +0200


On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 06:52:54PM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> On May/18, David Gaya wrote:
> 
> > I want to try to install Debian on an IBM i5 (iSeries using POWER5)
> > but I don't know how to start installation.
> > I'm able to boot Gentoo for ppc64.
> 
> 	Something similar here. I'm testing a IBM pSeries 6E4, and cannot boot
> the powerpc (32 bits) version of Debian. However, Gentoo ppc64 does boot
> perfectly. Am I missing something? Shouldn't Debian ppc32 work, at least for
> booting?

the pseries should work, have you tried the power4 32bit kernels ?

> 	I'll have this box for some time, so if I can do any test to help,
> just ask :-)

Have you tried Cajus's stuff? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther